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Read background information on the programming and collection of Eye, interviews with filmmakers and in-depth information on the art of the moving image.

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All articles: Experimental film

Super8 film in the Peter Rubin Collection
Figure 1, from Super8 film in the Peter Rubin Collection.
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The movement of Peter Rubin

In 2016, Eye received the collection of experimental filmmaker and VJ Peter Rubin, who influenced many clubbers and filmmakers. How does his work fit into today's visual culture?

Vincent Moon (© Alex Schröder)

Vincent Moon (© Alex Schröder)
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Cinema Psychedelica

Cinema Psychedelica explores and compares the 1960s psychedelic film culture to the current wave of psychedelica in cinema.

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Monuments to transience: the films of Barbara Meter

Barbara Meter is one of the Netherlands’ most important experimental filmmakers. As part of our celebration of one hundred years of 16mm film, we are spotlighting her work.

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Henri Plaat: The Grand Duke of Absurdism

Visual artist and filmmaker Henri Plaat passed away on 12 August 2023 at the age of 87, leaving a significant, highly original oeuvre of some 45 films in the Eye collection.

Frame from Chromapark '95 - Performance Master, mixed of images done by Rubin for the E-werk in Berlin
Image 10: frame from Chromapark '95 - Performance Master, mixed of images done by Rubin for the E-werk in Berlin.
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One chapter in the Dutch experimental film history: Holland Experimental Film

We're very happy to share a new blog post on the collection of Peter Rubin, written by guest writer Luisa González, a filmmaker, film programmer and researcher.

Super8 film in the Peter Rubin Collection
Figure 1, from Super8 film in the Peter Rubin Collection.
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Super8 films by Peter Rubin

Peter Rubin’s Super8 films comprise a relatively smaller aspect of the entire Collection - only 62 reels, most 15 meters in length.

Stacks of boxes in the collection centre

Dozen vol materiaal van Peter Rubin, klaar om uitgezocht te worden in het Collectiecentrum van Eye Filmmuseum.
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On handling the Peter Rubin Collection

Piles and piles of dusty boxes stacked on pallets, handwritten scribbles and stickers: pretty much every archivist’s nightmare awaited me on the first day of my internship at Eye.

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